8:00 PM 8:00 PM Traditional — O Waly, Waly Samuel Barber, piano Samuel Barber, tenor Bridge, 9156 8:02 PM Samuel Barber — Hermit Songs Leontyne Price, soprano Samuel Barber, piano CBS/Sony, 6089 8:19 PM Samuel Barber — Agnus Dei (choral – based on Adagio for Conductor: Robert Shaw Ensemble: Robert Shaw Festival Singers Arietha Lockhart, … Read More »
8:00 PM Heitor Villa-Lobos — Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for voice Conductor: Heitor Villa-Lobos Ensemble: French National Radio Symphony Victoria de los Angeles,sopran Fernando Benedetti, cello Angel/EMI, 67229 8:10 PM Ron Nelson — Aspen Jubilee Conductor: Eugene Corporon Ensemble: CCM Wind Symphony Susan Kane, soprano Mark, 780 8:21 PM Anatoly Liadov — Russian Folk Songs … Read More »
8:00 PM 8:00 PM Christoph Willibald Gluck — Orfeo ed Eurydice: Deh placatevi Conductor: Pierre Monteux Ensemble: Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus Rise Stevens, mezzo-soprano RCA/BMG, 63534 8:03 PM Gioacchino Rossini — Soirees Musicales June Anderson, soprano Raul Gimenez, tenor Kathryn Bouleyn, soprano Alessandro Corbelli, baritone Nina Walker, piano Nimbus, 5132 8:50 PM Richard Strauss … Read More »
8:00 PM 8:00 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — St. Matthew Passion: Kommt, ihr Tochter Conductor: Ton Koopman Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Netherlands Bach Boys’ Choir Breda Sacraments Choir Erato, 45814 8:07 PM Felix Mendelssohn — Elijah Opus: 70 Conductor: Paul Daniel Ensemble: Orch of Age of Enlightenment Bryn Terfel, baritone Renee Fleming, soprano and Chorus … Read More »
8:00 8:00 PM John David — You are the new day The King’s Singers Angel/EMI, 49564 8:02 PM Karl Jenkins — In These Stones Horizons Sing Conductor: Karl Jenkins Ensemble: West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Bryn Terfel, baritone Serendipity Chorus Cardiff Choir Angel/EMI, 57966 8:18 PM Michael Torke — Book of Proverbs Conductor: Edo de Waart Ensemble: … Read More »
Simon Trpceski, who will play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this weekend, talked with me about the performance. Heading out of the WBJC studios, Trpceski expressed regret over omitting in the interview that he thought Rachmaninoff’s underheard and underperformed concerto was, “sexy!” Actually, his impressions of the concerto are quite … Read More »
Last Wednesday, March 13th, Jonathan Palevsky and I hopped in the WBJC traveling booth and flew over to the Music Center at Strathmore for a magical evening of Mendelssohn. Actually, there was no flying except during the soaring performance of Mendelssohn’s masterful oratorio Elijah. Arriving early at Strathmore to get ourselves situated at the WBJC … Read More »
In his later years Franz Joseph Haydn personally enjoying great success and fame, but the world around him was in trouble. In 1798 Haydn wrote Missa in Angustiis (“Mass for troubled times”) which may have been premiered the day Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile. This late mass would gradually be called … Read More »
Tonight’s Vocalise is as American as an apple pie on Thanksgiving, almost! American composers Barber, Joplin and Copland will make appearances on the program. However, I’ll also have “Goin’ Home” based on the slow movement of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” written in the U.S.A. and the bawdy “Watkins Ale” with The … Read More »
In honor of Veterans Day, I’ll have music of different moods by American composers beginning with Aaron Copland’s Simple Gifts and ending with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings in the choral arrangement. In between those small treasures, there will be performances of music by Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre. Related posts: Almost All American Mass … Read More »
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